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☆ Russian air strikes on western Ukraine kill at least three - officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view shows a building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine August 15, 2023. The Volyn region borders NATO-member Poland to its west. Ukraine's Air Force said that its forces had destroyed 16 of at least 28 Russia-launched air and sea-based missiles. Until July, the Lviv region which is far from the front lines and which borders Poland to its west, had been spared most Russia's air attacks. Air raid alerts were issued for entire Ukraine for about two hours, staring at around 2 a.m. (2300 GMT).

Persons: Administration Maksym, Yuriy Pohulyaiko, Andriy Sadovyi, Sadovyi, Maxim Kozitsky, Serhiy Lisak, Lidia Kelly, Maria Tsvetkova, Kim Coghill, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: Lviv Regional, Administration, REUTERS, NATO, Air Force, Lviv region's, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Lviv, Handout, Russia, Volyn, Lutsk, Poland, Dnipropetrovsk, Warsaw, New York

☆ Russia's central bank raises rates to 12%; three killed in Russian air attack on western Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

At least three people were killed and many more injured after Russia launched a large-scale overnight air attack on Ukraine's western region of Lviv and the northwestern region of Volyn. Scores of residential buildings and a kindergarten were destroyed in what local media has reported as the largest air assault on the Lviv region, which borders Poland, since the start of the war. Russia's central bank on Tuesday raised its key interest rate to 12% from 8.5%, the bank said in a statement on its website. The bank called an extraordinary meeting for Tuesday amid pressure from Moscow to halt a rapid depreciation of the country's ruble currency. The ruble slumped near 102 to the dollar on Monday as anxiety around the state of the economy and the impact of Western sanctions weighed heavily on the beleaguered currency.

Organizations: Russia Locations: Lviv, Volyn, Poland, Moscow

☆ Zelenskyy honors victims of World War II massacres of tens of thousands of Poles carried out by Ukrainian nationalists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

They honored the Polish victims of World War II massacres carried out by Ukrainian nationalists. Images shared by Zelenskyy's Twitter account showed him and Polish President Andrzej Duda in a church in Lutsk, a city in western Ukraine. Polish civilian victims of March 26, 1943 massacre committed by Ukrainian Insurgent Army assisted by ordinary Ukrainian peasantry. Wikimedia CommonsEstimates for the death toll during the World War II ant-Polish massacres range from 20,000 to 100,000, The New York Times previously reported. Even as Vladimir Putin uses "denazification" to justify the ongoing conflict, the Ukrainian president is confronting Ukraine's dark history during World War II.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's, Andrzej Duda, Zelenskyy, Poland —, Ukraine's staunchest, Mateusz Morawiecki, Vladimir Putin, Morawiecki Organizations: Sunday, Russia, Service, Twitter, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Hitler's, New York Times, Polish, Associated Press, Poland Locations: Poland, Wall, Silicon, Lutsk, Ukraine, Volyn, Volhynia —, Ukraine's Volyn Oblast, Polish, Poland's, Russia, Ukrainian

☆ Fact Check-Ukrainian church fire from 2021 likely started by electrical fault, according to priest
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A 2021 video of a burning church in Ukraine has circulated online with a caption that baselessly claims it was set alight by Ukrainian nationalists. The posts claim that “Ukrainian nationalists” started the fire after the church rector refused to switch from the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its 11th month, has led many Ukrainians to rally round the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which they see as more pro-Ukrainian than its rival, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Dnipropetrovsk Eparchy published a statement at the time with videos and photos of the church (here ). The video shows a fire at a church in the Dnipropetrovsk region in 2021.

☆ Ukraine credits local beavers for unwittingly bolstering its defenses — their dams make the ground marshy and impassable
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This is in part because of beavers building dams, with nobody stopping them due to the war. The animals are unwittingly helping Kyiv by building dams that keep the ground marshy and impassable, a military spokesman told the agency. This helps Ukraine by making it less likely that an attack could come via Belarus, which borders Ukraine not far north of the capital Kyiv. Ukrainian officials had warned that Russia may wage an offensive through its ally Belarus into a region of Ukraine called Volyn. Its spokesman, Serhiy Khominskyi, praised the beavers, which he told Reuters were more working unimpeded, unlike in other years.

☆ Ukrainian swamps make attack from Belarus unlikely - for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian officials have warned of a new looming Russian assault, with Belarus to the north named as one possible launchpad, as Moscow seeks to revive its faltering invasion. Russia and its close ally Belarus have beefed up their joint military grouping in Belarus and plan to hold joint aviation drills there from next Monday. Across the border on Thursday, the deputy commander of what Moscow calls its "special military operation" inspected Russian forces in Belarus. Analyst Konrad Muzyka, who runs defence consultancy Rochan Consulting, told Reuters that although a Russian troop build-up could be observed in Belarus, an attack into north-west Ukraine from Belarus would face enormous difficulties. "This makes it easy for Ukrainian forces to channel the movement of Russian forces into specific areas where they would be shelled by artillery."

☆ Nestle to launch new Ukraine facility in rare war-time investment
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.S) will invest 40 million Swiss francs ($42.88 million) to launch a new production facility in western Ukraine, the company said on Monday. Nestle is one of very few international companies to announce new investments in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February 2022. Russia's invasion has wrecked Ukraine's economy, which is projected to shrink by 35% this year, according to International Monetary Fund estimates. In recent weeks power blackouts have spread throughout the country as Russia intensified attacks on Ukrainian power facilities. Nestle, which already has about 5,800 staff in Ukraine, is planning to add 1,500 new jobs at the new production facility in Smolyhiv in the Volyn region.

☆ Reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plants shut down after Russian strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Several reactors at two Ukrainian power plants automatically shut down as a result of Russian missile strikes on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, adding that millions of people were left without electricity. Russia pounded cities and energy facilities across Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least one person and causing widespread power outages in what Kyiv said was the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of war. "As a result of the strikes, automation today disabled several nuclear units at two stations - these are calculated consequences, and the enemy knew exactly what he was doing," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "In many cities and regions of our country, there are again emergency power outages. read moreReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Russian-installed authorities order evacuation of Kherson in face of Ukrainian counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Hyder Abbasi | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Russian-installed authorities in the occupied city of Kherson on Saturday urged residents to leave immediately in the face of a looming counteroffensive by Ukraine’s armed forces that aimed to recapture the southern city. Ukrainian forces bombarded Russian positions and targeted supply routes across the province on Friday, inching closer to a full assault on the only provincial capital that has remained in Russian hands throughout the war. The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. Infrastructure in the southern city of Odesa had also been hit, he said. Iran sent trainers and technical support to enable Russian forces to use Iranian-made drones “with better lethality,” John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesperson, told reporters.

☆ Minoritatea ucraineană din România sărbătorește Ziua Limbii Ucrainene
▼ + stars: | 2018-07-04 | by ( ) lyberti.com time to read: +6 min

Astăzi, 9 noiembrie, minoritatea ucraineană din România sărbătorește Ziua Limbii Ucrainene, comoara cea mai de preț a ucrainenilor de pretutindeni, moștenită de la părinți, bunici și străbunici, informează pe pagina de Facebook Uniunea Ucrainenilor din România, scrie Libertatea Cuvântului. Spre deosebire de anii precedenți, când manifestările culturale se organizau cu o largă participare a publicului, în 2020, Ziua Limbii Ucrainene se sărbătorește online. Potrivit site-ului Ambasadei Ucrainei în România, conform datelor recensământui din toamna anului 2011, în România lociesc 51,7 mii de etnici ucraineni. În România funcţionează o singura instituţie cu predare în limba ucraineană — Liceul ucrainean T.G.Shevchenko în Sighetu Marmaţiei. În unele şcoli româneşti din regiunile dens populate de ucraineni limba şi literatura ucraineană sunt predate ca subiecte.

Persons: Nicolae Miroslav Petrețchi, Nash Organizations: Ucrainene, Facebook, Limbii Ucrainene, Vicariatul Ortodox Ucrainean, Bisericii, Române, Vicariatul, Bisericii Greco - Catolice, TVR, Uniunea Ucraineană Locations: România, Ambasadei Ucrainei, Ucraina, Rusia Kieveană, Principatului Galiţia, Dobrogei, Delta, Tulcea, Maramureş, Transcarpatia, ţării, României, Satu Mare, Bucovina de Sud, Suceava, Botoşani, Cernăuți, Banat, Caraş Severin, Dobrogea, Galaţi, Sighetu Marmaţiei, Rădăuţi, judeţul Suceava, Vicariatul, Iaşi, Sighetu, Timişoara, Europa, Marmaţiei, Bucureşti, Cluj

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